The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-07-16
immigration.


1t is a beautiful and captivating theory that
these United States are an asylum for the
oppressed of all lands, and it is true that the
oppressed ofall lands have found asylum here.
Our naturalization laws afford ample facilities
to immigrants 10 become citizens, and they
are pouring into our country from the four
winds. All parts of the world are tributary
to our population, at the rate Of about 100000
per month, or something over million per
annum. To say nothing of the natural in
crease of our resident population, how long
will it be before this ratio of increase will
crowd our country until its population be.
comes as dense as that of China or Japan?
This is an interesting question worthy of the
consideration of every political economist.
Another question, equally worthy of con.
sideration, is-what has been the effect of this
influx of foreign population into the asylum
We have afforded them? Like the original
pair in Eden, the happiness they have found
here has been too much for them. We can
illustrate the effect upon the country, per-
haps, by this hypothesis: You extend the
hospitality of your roof, your bed, your table,
your hearthstone, to a stranger, weary, hun
CRY, and foot-sore; and after he has ate and
drank at your board and warmed and refreshed,
himself through your bounty and haSpitGfty,
he attempts to turn you and Your family out
of doors and take possessior sour property.
Our national prosperity and our free institu'
tons attract these people to, our shores, and
after they have. been here a, short time, they
set to work, to, lake possession of the country.
They bring With them their old-world quarrels,
their passions, and their prejudices, their
0rangefnen and Ribbonmen, their Red Re-
publicanism and Nihilism, their AnarchisIa
and their dynamite. Witness the bloody e&
feets at Chicago, at which terrible crinpss jas
tice seems paralyzed, and has let flli her
sword harmless by her side.
Here in this the freest cour&ly on the globe,
these cut-throats are combining and conspir-
ing against property add against life, and
openly proclaim theiT,pprpose to destroy both.
If their plans coufd succeed, they would turn
this fair land Of liberty and law into perfect
pandenonium, where neither life, liberty nor
property would be secure. 1t is high time
that the descendants of the founders of this
Republic should take some steps for their own
protection and security.
To the industrious and virtuous foreign born
citizen, we would, as ever, extend the hand
of cordial welcome. Many of them are
among our very best citizens. But the anar-
chists, the red.handed dynamiters, the plotters
and conspirators against the lives and prop
erty of our citizens, who would overthrow law
and order and contemn and despise our insti-
tutions. are enemies of our government, enc
mics of society, and ought to be expelled the
country, as unworthy to set foot upon her
soil.
Phe naupers and criminals Of Europe are
being sent hither as if this country were a
Siberia or Botnay Bay. This ought to be
casus beli against the country so violating the
comfy of nations.
Our naturalization laws will haSe TO be
modified, and the privileges OF citizenship
more guarded, if we would maintain our coun-
try land of liberty and law and not of licen-
tiousness The rights of person and property
must be maintained, the public virtue must
be upheld, the Sabbath must not be desecrat-
ed. our cheap lands must be held for our
owu. SOFAS, and not be caught up by aliens and
monopolists At the present rate of increase
in our population, cheap land will soon be a
thing ofthe past, and the young men of the
country will be compelled to become hewers
of wood and drawers of water, instead OF
landed proprietors, such as their fathers were.
When that day arrives, and it is not far
distant. and when that condition of things Is
present with us, when there is no longer any
cheap land to be purchased by our young
men, and when our dense population Jostle
each other in every avenue of trade. the strugg-
Gle with the masses will be, not for wealth or
competence, but for existence, poverty and
discontent will be the common lot, and our
people will be in similar condition to that
of the pauper population Of Europe While
we may, let us put off the evil day as far as
possible.